A college classmate of mine got a heart-lung transplant at about the same age. I did not hear that the donor was a smoker. He too died shortly after. These operations are not trivial, and a life with CF leaves a weakened body, transplant or no transplant.

9 posted on 12/19/2012 9:34:34 AM PST by Dr. Sivana
(There is no salvation in politics.)

“The Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust said: “It is very rare for patients to specify that they do not wish to be considered for clinically healthy lungs from smokers.”

“This is because the risks are much higher if patients decline donor lungs from a former smoker, and decide to wait for another set of organs which are both a match for them and from a non-smoker, to become available.”

The Over/Under of posters who comment after only reading the headline and fail to read the rest which says she had to take the lungs because she had no choice and would have died waiting for the “perfect” lungs to come along

80%

16 posted on 12/19/2012 9:49:46 AM PST by qam1
(There's been a huge party. All plates and the bottles are empty, all that's left is the bill to pay)